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The thing that always got me about the RCMP is how board their role is. Depending on where you are in the country, they're the local police, the equivalent to s
by monkeybutton 6y ago
The thing that always got me about the RCMP is how board their role is. Depending on where you are in the country, they're the local police, the equivalent to state troopers, the FBI, are the prime minister's security, and more. It's ridiculous!
- OJFord 6y agoI don't think there's anything inherently wrong with that being one organisation; the UK is pretty similar: - local police forces (backed by national groups for serious organised crime, terror, financial, etc.); - that have within them CID (Criminal Investigation Department, plain-clothes detectives) [0] with a shared (as in uniform and non-uniform branches from a common point, AIUI) org chart, which is about the closest we have to the FBI in the US; - and the PM's visible security comes from the 'Protection Command' (also royals, diplomats, other ministers) [1] which is just a part of the Met, London's 'local police force'. I don't think that means there's some automatic abuse of power, or whatever it is (?) that you're concerned about, just from it all being 'the police'. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Investigation_Department https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Investigation_Departm... [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_Command https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_Command
- vkou 6y agoIt's not that ridiculous. Canada has no county-level organizations, and for various historic reasons, the provinces are not really in the business of policing. So, cities either need to run their own police forces, or contract out to the RCMP.